Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2004-01-17 07:23 am (UTC)[source: inventors.about.com]
2. Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope tells this way better than I can. Short version: 212 was wholly arbitrary, 96 was supposed to be human body temperature, and 0 was colder than it gets in Denmark.
[source: The Straight Dope]
3. Because all most of us will ever need is numbers between about -20 and 40 C for weather, or up to around 250 C for cooking, and we may as well use only one or two digits where we can. :)
[Alternately, "Because Americans are stupid gits."]